452 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JUNE ° 
branching, hispid-hirsute and glandular-viscid above: leaves 
ovate, acuminate or obtuse, entire, 2-6 long including the 
petiole, the smaller ones tapering to a sessile base : racemes or 
spikes 5-10 long, secund, dense; pedicels 1-2™™ long: corolla 
violet, broadly open campanulate, slightly exceeding the spatu- 
late-obovate unequal: calyx lobes; appendages salient, long, 
united at base of the stamen; stamens sparingly bearded at 
base, exserted beyond the corolla lobes: style long exserted, 
cleft to below the middle: capsule hirsute, broadly ovate, 
pointed, half as long as the calyx lobes: ovules two to four to 
each placenta; seeds regular, turgid at maturity, not angled, 
dark brown, deeply favose, a little more than 1™™ long. 
Sequoia Mills, California, 7. S. Brandegee; also Middle Tule 
river, California, Dr. C. A. Purpus, no. 5603. 
Young plants collected by J. W. Congdon at Sherlock, Mariposa county, 
California, June 15, 1898, probably belong to this species. It is apparently 
nearest P. circinatiformis Gray. 
Allocarya salsa, n.sp.— Annual, rough-hispid throughout, 
prostrate-spreading 1-2 in diameter, with rather few stout, 
often inflated leafy branches simple or branched toward the 
ends: leaves broadly linear, pustulate-hispid, otherwise glab- 
rous : bracts similar, longer than the calyxes of the dense spikes : 
flowers sessile : calyx clavate, the elongated lobes widely spread- 
ing: corolla 4™™ long, with spreading lobes and white incon- 
spicuous processes: nutlets glabrous, 2™™ long, lanceolate, 
unsymmetrical, longitudinally rugose on the unequal inner faces, 
transversely rugose on the back ; scar of attachment nearly basal, 
small on the three caducous nutlets, the fourth attached by 4 
broad surface and probably separating only by decay, 
Alkaline soil, Twin springs, Nevada, Dr. C. A. Purpus, no. 
6339, August 1898. . 
In aspect unlike any other species known to me. 
Cryptanthe excavata, n.sp.—Annual, 1-2" high, rather 
sparingly hirsute-hispid, branching from the base, branches 
slender, flexuous : fruiting spikes usually in threes and flowers 
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